Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-31

with age-or, alas, resting beneath the
soil for which they periled ali--full of
youthful vigor People had thought
OF rebellion as something totally for
eign In character. and had listened to
the rawlings of secession as to old wives
fables, the mutterings Of insanity or
rehearsals of dreams OF troubled slum-
bern. Accustomed a. were the men of
the north to assent to the rule of the
majority - expressed at the ballot box,
they could not conceive why others
should not do likewise, and until the
blow was struck they refused to listen
to those who called attention to the
actions Of the seceeding states, or to
believe the evidence of their own
senses. 1t has been said that Eng
lands drum beat rolls around the
world, but no other signal gun ever
reused such an army % did the first
one fired at Fort Sumter. II found an
echo In the call to arms all over the
land-the south - well ss the north
an echo which ceased not to roll and
reverberate for four long and BLOODY
years and till IL had drowned the
dying groans Of thres-fourths OF mill.
ion of men slain In the strife-till
wars red current had quenched the
fires on thousands of hearthstones and
its sombre-hued wrappings clad halfa
million widows, and nearly two mill.
ions Of children were fatherless. II
opened horrible pit into which were
cast the most precious things the
country owned-its children-by hun
dreds Of thousands, and all this was
done that mans mad ambition might
be gratified and bis thirst for gain be
slaked by more opportunity to raise
human chattels for the auction block.
IL ended in-what? Mingled with
moans Of sorrow for the fallen, and
rising over them, sounded pcans of
praise and glad shouts Of q freed race;
red. however, snatched from fields OF
blood. reared aloft the starry emblem
Of o redeemed and restored nationality
10 float again from sea to sea, and from
the lakes to the gulf, out of the ashes
Of ruined homes even the men who
sought the nations life reared Others
better than those they had lost. aided
by the very foemen they had fought
and whose friends they had slain
the whole country. purged from q
stain and relieved Of an incubus which
had been dead weight, and had re-
tarded wholesome development, start.
cd anew, and stands, to-day, far ahead
Of any position IL could have reached
bad the war not been brought on, or
bad those responsible for IL have suc-
ceeded In their attempt at dismember-
ment. Nor, after all this expense OF
blood and treasure, has . single head
of traitor fallen for his treason, nor
has any been forced to seek an asy.
lum In foreign lands. Such magma
nimity was never before known. and
on this day, sacred to the memories of
our dead, and standing beside their
graves freshly strewn with tokens Of
remembrance and love, we extend 10
repentant foes the forgiving hand,
end say: "Oh, brothers! speaking the
same mother tongue; oh, friends enc
mics no more; let us take . m ournful
hand together, - we stand over our
bonored dead and call q truce to bat
tle." And may God speed the day
when everywhere above the plume
and bayonet may wave the lilies and
the palms Of love and peace" What
memories are stirred within us to-day?
Across their plains o. retrospect what
phantom legions pass Shiloh, Stone
River, vicksburg, Malvern Hill and
Appomattox send forth their thou
sands, hey rise from their rocky rest
ing places where at Gettysburg they
hurled back the rebel invader, they
descend from the precipitous sides Of
Mission Ridge, the dark pine thiekets
of ChIcamaugua furnish their contin-
gent; they come wrapped In the
clouds which they fought on Look
outs slopes; they stream across blood
stained Antietam; from the Wilder
ness they come, crowned with the
oaken wreath OF the brave; from the
carnage-tinted heights Of Fredericks-
burg the throng pours, thick and
strong; from Nashville's guardian
hills, from wagner's sandy parApse
and MOBILES bloodstained wassss
they rise; the CORY decks Of the sink
Ing Cumberland have their rsprssen-
tativey Andersouvills. opens ~
ghastly gates from which emerge
gaunt and hAggard stasvelings; hospi'
tal and picket line. ocean and rvsr'
give op their deed 70 swell the mighty
thronf. which has for videttss the In
mates Of lonely frostssr graves, snch
- thsss By which W stand today.
What is.dsss euids Ne ghostly arrayi
NcClsIlsn, nssds. Thomas, Hsoke,
NoPhsuon, ssdgwiek, Ksavnsy, ean-
ner. Hansosk. 0arasld, Casby, Mans-
nsld, Rsynolds. Lytls. werdsworth,